Hey, when it’s time to crack down on those pesky Second Amendment rights the bitterclingers are bitterclinging to, but your master plan for planting guns of American provenance at bloody Mexican drug cartel crime scenes with the hopes of creating a backlash against gun shops isn’t working out for you, what’s a transnational progressive and wannabe-dictator to do…?

The Oregonian, “Fireworks show canceled amid concern for sea birds”: The coastal town of Depoe Bay is about to experience its quietest July 3 in 19 years. Town officials this year reluctantly announced they were cancelling the annual pre-Independence Day fireworks show, following pressure from federal wildlife managers who said the noise disrupts protected sea birds. Business owners, dependent on the popular show for foot traffic, are not happy. “It’s

Now, more than ever, time to understand what is meant by American principles and American exceptionalism … *********************************** “It’s UNPATRIOTIC!!”

Nothing conservative / classically liberal / constitutionalist / concerned American citizens do is ever, ever what it seems:  instead, there’s a vast, racist, right-wing conspiracy (most recently and infamously carried out by southern Democrats nearly a half-century ago, so deep goes the roots of the conspiracy) that seeks always and forever to take power from goodly, well-intentioned progressives by any means necessary — and to do so based on nothing

Washington Examiner: While the nation was distracted with the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling last week, Congress passed a $96 billion double-bailout that only guarantees future bailouts in the years to come. On Friday afternoon, within half an hour of one another, both the House and Senate voted to reauthorize the nation’s federal transportation funding programs. They then immediately fled town, which is understandable because the legislation is atrocious. For starters,

But not quite as long as the odds that the GOP establishment has either the desire or the stones for the fight to begin with. No worries, though, citizen.  They promise to efficiently manage the Leviathan with a measured hand.  And maybe some tax breaks from time to time.  And who better to keep that promise than the man whose team gave us state-run health care in the first place?

Pursuant to an exchange happening in the comments, allow me to respond to a point argued by the Chief Justice — which is at the very heart of his decision — and add it to the response from the dissenters.  I do this because it will become clear to many longtime readers of this site just how perfectly Roberts’ argument, and my rebuttal to it, replays the intentionalism discussions so

Published in the Atlantic, 2007, the interview with Chief Justice John Roberts that set the stage for the deconstruction of the Constitution at the hands of one supremely overconfident thinker, a man whose greatest flaw is his inability to see how his unblinking devotion to his supposedly measured humility is itself a form of dangerous hubris. Before long, the conversation turned to judicial disappointments. “It’s sobering to think of the